flockofcrows: (DA » Alistair » Here Lies the Abyss)




NIGHTSHADE DREAMS
 
Nightshade Dreams is a series of fanfics, fanart, and other fanwork I may create for my "canonical" Dragon Age world state. It primarily focuses on Morrigan, Alistair, and Surana but various other characters may play significant roles as well. This masterpost is mostly just a timeline for future reference in case I forget my own lore.

 
ALISTAIR&MORRIGAN
 
 
 
 
"He knows his father was a good man. I— I thought you deserved that much.”
THE STORY
SURANA&ZEVRAN
 
 
 
 
 
 
"For the chance to be by your side I would storm the Dark City itself."
TIMELINE
  • 9:04-05 - Zevran is born.
  • 9:07 - Hawke is born.
  • 9:10 - Surana is born in the Denerim Alienage.
  • 9:10 - Alistair is born.
  • 9:10 - Adaar is born.
  • 9:18 - Morrigan's magical abilities manifest.
  • 9:20 - Alistair is sent to the Bournshire Monastery.
  • 9:20 - Morrigan spies on the Avvar.
  • 9:20 - de Riva is born.
  • 9:21 - Zevran and Isabela's meeting and affair.
  • 9:30 - Battle of Ostagar - Hawke and Surana are there but they canonically don't meet.
  • 9:30 - DA2 Prologue.
  • 9:31 - The Landsmeet in Denerim.
  • 9:31 Wintermarch - Dark Ritual in Redcliffe. Kieran is conceived.
  • 9:31 Wintermarch - Defeating the Archdemon; the Blight ends.
  • 9:31 Wintermarch-Justinian - Surana traveling with Zevran for fun for 6 months.
  • 9:31 - Flemeth's "resurrection" at Sundermount.
  • 9:31 17th Justinian/Ferventis - Surana is sent to Vigil's Keep for Awakening.
  • 9:31 - Zevran goes to Antiva to fight the Crows.
  • 9:31 Harvestmere - Kieran is born.
  • 9:31 Haring - Dragon Age: Awakening epilogue.
  • 9:31 - The Golems of Amgarrak.
  • 9:31 - "Four other members of House Arainai died in similar circumstances over the next three years (9:31-34). Grandmasters Runn and Availa died soon after at the hands of an unknown assassin."
  • 9:32 - Witch Hunt - Surana confronts Morrigan in the Dragonbone Wastes.
  • 9:32 - Surana helps Zevran against the Crows.
  • 9:33 - Morrigan is rumored to join Empress Celene's court.
  • 9:35 - Merrill and Audacity fight. She completes her mirror.
  • 9:35 - Alistair and Carver show up in Kirkwall on Warden business.
  • 9:35 - "By 9:35 Dragon, Zevran was said to have two out of the seven Guildmasters in his pocket, and to be responsible for the death of the Guildmaster of Rialto."
  • 9:35 - The Qunari attack Kirkwall. Hawke kills the Arishok. Sten becomes the new Arishok.
  • 9:36-37 - Corypheus is awakened from his prison and is defeated by Hawke.
  • 9:37 - Zevran is in Kirkwall. A Murder of Crows quest.
  • 9:37 - Carver is kidnapped by Thrask.
  • 9:37 - Anders blows up the Chantry. Zevran and Nathaniel are fighting by Hawke's side against Meredith.
  • 9:37 - Fiona is appointed Grand Enchanter.
  • 9:37 - Morrigan is appointed Celene's Arcane Advisor.
  • 9:37 - The Callier Massacre (Blackwall, Lieutenant Cyril Mornay, etc).
  • 9:38 - Alistair goes to Antiva with Varric and Isabela to search for Maric. He kills Yavana.
  • 9:39 - Cassandra interrogates Varric in Kirkwall.
  • 9:41 - The Conclave. Adaar gains the mark.
  • 9:41 - Zevran is canonically with the Warden.
  • 9:41 - Hawke is left behind in the Fade.
  • 9:41 - Alistair leads the remaining Wardens to Weisshaupt.
  • 9:42 - Corypheus is defeated.
  • 9:44 - Trespasser. Exalted Council. The Inquisition is disbanded. Adaar is named Comtesse and given holdings in Kirkwall. Varric hires the Valo-Kas as mercenaries to support the Kirkwall City Guard.
  • 9:44 - Surana and Zevran have returned to Antiva City from their quest to find a cure to the Taint.
  • 9:51 - Lucanis' ship is ambushed by the Venatori and he's taken to the Ossuary. The Antivan Crows assume him dead. 
  • 9:52 - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
 
DREAMS
 
 
 
 

"Live well, my friend. Live gloriously.”




flockofcrows: (art » The Magic Circle)
Delirium (733 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alistair/Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Characters: Alistair (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Healing, Elfroot (Dragon Age), Fluff
Series: Part 3 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

Alistair is not responsible for what he says when he is under the influence of fun herbs.

flockofcrows: (DA » Alistair » Here Lies the Abyss)
Old Magic (2715 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alistair/Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Characters: Alistair (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Angst, Guilt, Family, Reunion, Pre-Relationship, Missing Scene, Warden Alistair, Alternating POV
Series: Part 5 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

Stuck in Skyhold while waiting for the order to march on Adamant, Alistair meets his son for the first time. He also meets Morrigan for what feels like the first time.

flockofcrows: (DA » Surana » The Tower of Ishal)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: General
Characters: Zevran, Surana
Relationships: Zevran/Surana
Summary:  Here’s a 3 year old sketch I finally decided to finish, featuring Zevran and Surana getting into trouble in Antiva after the Blight.
Preview:
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flockofcrows: (stock » autumn village)
Burning Idols (477 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cullen Rutherford/Female Surana
Characters: Cullen Rutherford, Female Surana (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Dreams and Nightmares, Wet Dream, Fade to Black, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Blasphemy, UST, Pining, Present Tense, Post-Dragon Age: Origins Quest - Broken Circle
Series: Part 3 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

He has had this dream before, blasphemous as it is.

flockofcrows: (DA » Morrigan » which witch)
Unbroken Line (974 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fiona (Dragon Age), Kieran (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Angst, Guilt, Family, Present Tense
Series: Part 6 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

Fiona is haunted by guilt. Then she comes across someone unexpected.

flockofcrows: (DA » Surana » The Tower of Ishal)
The Orange Trees of Antiva (1022 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Zevran Arainai/Female Surana
Characters: Zevran Arainai, Female Surana (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Missing Scene, Post-DAO
Series: Part 3 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

Surana and Zevran both know the price of freedom can only be paid in blood.

flockofcrows: (swamp witchery)
Song for the Unmourned (1380 words) by flockofcrows
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alistair/Morrigan (Dragon Age)
Characters: Alistair (Dragon Age), Morrigan (Dragon Age), Flemeth (Dragon Age)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Angst, Pre-Relationship
Series: Part 1 of Nightshade Dreams
Summary:

The path leading to Morrigan's freedom is rather steep.

flockofcrows: (DA » Adaar » Red Lyrium)
Nemaya SuranaMarian HawkeRea Adaar



The Warden

Dragon Age: Origins
The Champion

Dragon Age 2
The Inquisitor

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Upon discovering their daughter's magic at a young age, Surana's family attempted to leave the Denerim alienage to hide their child from the Templars. The attempt failed and Surana was taken to Kinloch Hold. Willing to do just about anything to regain her freedom, Surana eagerly joined the Grey Wardens after her Harrowing.

Being an apostate on the run all her life, Marian resented her magic and most people around her. After the Fereldan army's defeat at Ostagar, she fled to Kirkwall with her family, a decision she later regretted a thousand times over.

Adaar was born in a Tal-Vashoth camp near the Free Marches and only knew the Qun through her parents' chilling tales. She was a hunter who later  joined and befriended the Valo-Kas while working as a mercenary. She is deathly afraid of the Qun and prefers the company of other Vashoth and  humans to that of unfamiliar Qunari.

flockofcrows: (DA » Morrigan » which witch)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: General
Relationships: Alistair/Morrigan
Characters: Alistair, Morrigan
Summary: Morrigan stole one of Alistair's little statues. Shippy things ensue.

flockofcrows: (DA » Surana » The Tower of Ishal)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: General
Characters: Nemaya Surana
Summary: The first fanart of 2021.
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flockofcrows: (art » King of Clubs)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: General
Characters: Nemaya Surana, Marian Hawke, Rea Adaar
Summary: Three character profiles of my canonical Warden, Hawke, and Inquisitor. The template was created by Marian Churchland.
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flockofcrows: (DA » Nemaya » Korkari Wilds)
 

It's so good to see them together. The leadup to Alistair's first appearance was delightful, especially since I was using a save editor so I wasn't sure it was gonna be Alistair or if I'd just end up with Stroud by accident.
It was a challenge to make Hawke look like herself. She still only looks like DA2 Hawke from profile but I'll take it.
flockofcrows: (DA » Alistair » Here Lies the Abyss)
Dragon Age: Origins
  • Warden: Surana
  • Romance: Zevran
  • The Circle was saved
  • Bhelen is king
  • The Anvil of the Void was destroyed
  • Peace was established between the elves and the werewolves
  • Avernus is spared
  • Anora rules alone
  • Loghain is dead
  • Alistair remains with the Wardens
  • Alistair did the Dark Ritual
 Dragon Age: Awakening
  • Nathaniel, Velanna, Anders, Oghren, Sigrun are all Wardens
  • Vigil's Keep and Amaranthine are saved
  • The Architect got away
 Dragon Age 2
  • Champion: aggressive mage Hawke
  • Romance: Fenris
  • Bethany is dead
  • Carver is with the Wardens
  • Feynriel was sent to the Dalish
  • Fenris is free
  • Merrill repaired the Eluvian
  • Merrill's clan is dead
  • Anders is dead
  • Hawke sided with the mages
 Dragon Age: Inquisition
  • Inquisitor: Adaar
  • Romance: Blackwall
  • The Inquisition allied with the mages
  • Celene rules alone
  • Hawke died in the Fade
  • The Inquisition allied with the Wardens 
  • The Inquisitor drank from the Well of Sorrows
  • The Inquisition disbanded
  • The Inquisitor wants to redeem Solas

This is the worldstate I'm going into DA4 with. My primary goal is to keep my favourite characters alive and to make them interact with each other as much as possible. There are a few choices I'm either unsure or of two minds about: both Sigrun and Varania are dead in this worldstate but if DA4 does something interesting with them, I may shuffle some choices around just to see what happens to them.
I'm also 50/50 regarding my choice about the Wardens. I think Alistair would have more reason to show up in DA4 in Weisshaupt if the Orlesian Wardens are exiled and partake in the Warden civil war but I also think he's better off rebuilding the Wardens in the south. My worldstate is essentially built on making sure Alistair and Morrigan (and now Kieran) are happy and well so I'll wait for spoilers and decide whether I want to keep that choice or not.
flockofcrows: (DA » Nemaya » Korkari Wilds)
 
 
Reaching the gates of Bownammar is one of my favourite parts of DAO so I always take my default team even though it'd make more sense to take Oghren and Shale, at the very least. I just can't imagine first laying eyes on the Archdemon without Alistair and Morrigan being there. I ended up having to return to Orzammar after the Broodmother fight in my first playthrough so I try to replicate that whenever I'm playing Nemaya; dropping off the default team and picking up Oghren and Shale for the Caridin fight seems like a good way to have my cake and eat it too.
Btw, I'm using this mod to give Zevran his Crow armor. I was uncertain about it at first but it grew on me so much I don't let him wear anything else until the epilogue. I like that it's a constant reminder that he's actually a dangerous assassin and not just an endearing guy with a sword who recites bad dirty poetry.
flockofcrows: (DA » Nemaya » The Tower of Ishal)
 
“I can’t believe I’m gonna fuck the assassin sent to kill me.”
“Well, you don’t have to.“
“No, I’m gonna.”

The gang has spent entirely too many months underground in Orzammar and Surana finally noticed the elven assassin sent to kill her is actually not bad looking. Things are going to go downhill from here—but only at a snail's pace because they still don't trust each other at this point.

Orzammar is the quest line I want to write fic about the most. It's ripe for angst, drama, and whump, particularly the neverending, gruelling journey in the Deep Roads. I have so many ideas for it it's actually hard to organize them into a coherent narrative. I know it'd be about my default team (Surana, Alistair, Morrigan, and Zevran) forcing their way past the Gates of Bownammar, suffering from all sorts of injuries and running out of supplies but still trying to move forward, even though "forward" is becoming more and more nightmarish. In my original playthrough, they ran out of supplies around the Dead Trenches and were forced to turn back which might also be interesting to include in the fic. It'd provide an excuse to drop Alistair and Morrigan off in Orzammar to work out their UST on their own while Surana is making another attempt at reaching Caridin.
flockofcrows: (DA » Nemaya » The Tower of Ishal)
Nemaya and Cullen after Broken Circle. Whatever relationship they had is pretty much over at this point.
flockofcrows: (DA » Nemaya » The Tower of Ishal)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Rating: General
Relationships: Surana/Zevran, Surana/Cullen
Characters: Nemaya Surana, Zevran, Cullen Rutherford
Summary: A visit to Cullen's sanctuary for former Templars addicted to lyrium, set some time after Trespasser.
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flockofcrows: (DA » Adaar » Red Lyrium)


  • Name: Nemaya Surana
  • Race: Elf
  • Class: Mage
  • Specialization: Arcane Warrior
  • Personality: manipulative
  • Romance: Zevran
  • Mabari's Name: Huckleberry
  • Misc: herbalist, history nerd
  • Name: Marian Hawke
  • Race: Human
  • Class: Mage
  • Specialization: Force Mage
  • Personality: aggressive
  • Romance: Fenris
  • Mabari's Name: Dane
  • Misc: extremely Fereldan; self-hating; died in the Fade
  • Name: Rea Adaar
  • Race: Qunari
  • Class: Rogue
  • Specialization: Archer, Artificer
  • Personality: eternal optimist
  • Romance: Blackwall
  • Misc: afraid of the Qun (and horses)
  • Name: Athanasius de Riva
  • Race: Human
  • Class: Rogue
  • Specialization: Archer, Veil Ranger
  • Personality: sarcastic
  • Romance: Lucanis
  • Misc: no self-preservation instinct; incorrigible pickpocket